Qwen Studio
Alibaba Cloud's chat app for the Qwen family of AI models
What is Qwen Studio?
Qwen Studio is Alibaba Cloud's chat app for its Qwen models, reached at chat.qwen.ai and in iOS and Android apps. It covers chat with a deep-thinking mode, web search, image and video understanding, image generation and editing, document processing, and voice and video chat. The apps are free to install; the web app also shows paid Go, Plus and Pro tiers, whose prices could not be confirmed.
Qwen Studio's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. See every plan
Good for
- People who want to use Alibaba's Qwen models in a chat app
- Working with images, audio and video as well as text
- Free everyday chat, search and image generation on a phone
Worth knowing
- Prices for the Go, Plus and Pro tiers could not be confirmed: the pricing view on chat.qwen.ai did not load when read, and the store listings show no in-app purchases.
- The iOS app was not found on the US App Store when checked, though it is listed in other storefronts such as Canada and the UK.
- No Windows or Mac app is listed; the store listings cover iPhone, iPad and Android.
- The app stores list the app as Qwen Studio, while the website's page title still reads Qwen.
Key features
- Deep Thinking
- A reasoning mode for complex problems that draws on real-time internet data to work toward a logical, step-by-step answer.
- Search
- Finds answers and resources from across the web, using the context of the query to narrow the results.
- Multimodal understanding
- Processes text, images, audio and video together, for example reading data from a chart or pulling key points from an audio clip.
- Image generation and editing
- Creates images from a description for presentations, illustrations or concept designs, and the site also lists image editing.
- Voice and video chat
- The site lists voice and video chat with the assistant among its functions, alongside document processing, tool use and artifacts.
Qwen Studio pricing
We could not confirm Qwen Studio’s current pricing from its own site, so we are not listing plans here. See chat.qwen.ai for current prices.
Qwen Studio alternatives
- Qwen Studio vs Kimi
Free plan · from $15/mo
- Qwen Studio vs Z.ai
Free plan · from $12.60/mo
- Qwen Studio vs ChatGPT
Free plan · from $8/mo
- Qwen Studio vs Gemini
Free plan · from $4.99/mo
Common questions
Is Qwen Studio free?
Qwen Studio has a free plan. The mobile apps are listed as free with no in-app purchases. The web app names a Free tier with standard usage limits beside Go, Plus and Pro tiers; their prices could not be read.
What platforms does Qwen Studio work on?
Qwen Studio is available on Web, iOS and Android.
Does Qwen Studio have a Windows app?
No Windows app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 5, 2026. Qwen Studio is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Does Qwen Studio have a macOS app?
No macOS app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 5, 2026. Qwen Studio is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Is Qwen Studio open source?
Qwen Studio is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 5, 2026.
Who makes Qwen Studio?
Qwen Studio is made by Alibaba Cloud. It dates from 2023.
What are the alternatives to Qwen Studio?
The closest alternatives to Qwen Studio in our directory are DeepSeek, Kimi, Z.ai, ChatGPT and Gemini. Each one has a side-by-side comparison with Qwen Studio.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026.